In Disney's recent version of the Pocahontas story, as in countless iterations before it, John Smith appears as a dashing romantic hero, smitten by the Indian "princess." Their relationship ...

She retains the chaste, high-necked Jacobian costume of ... on her feelings toward John Smith. Most historians doubt that a full-fledged romance ever existed between Pocahontas and Smith, but ...

Pocahontas is the most myth-encrusted figure in early America, a romantic “princess” who saves John Smith and the struggling Jamestown colony. But this fairy tale, familiar to millions today ...

Pocahontas was usually known as Matoaka, which means ‘the flower between two streams’. The English colonists, including John Smith ... vaguely regal costumes and displayed at various functions.